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Using the Bend feature to bring it all together

Using the Bend feature to bring it all together - Inventor Tutorial

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Using the Bend feature to bring it all together

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Bends are inherent in sheet metal components, but there are times where the automatic generation of bends while placing sheet metal features can be limiting. Let's use the bend feature to clean up a particularly complicated component. In this case, there is a gap between the flange on the on the right and the top of the part. Let's use the Bend tool to simply close that gap by selecting the edges that should be connected using a bend feature. A preview will appear, and when we're finished, it will apply any bend reliefs or any other geometry changes that are required along with filling in the gap that was selected. We can use this same approach on a more complicated level as well. We'll start the bend tool, again selecting the two edges that should be connected, but in this case you'll see that it's going to require something more than just a single bend. And we do have options in the dialogue to help us with this. For example right now it's being resolved with a 45 degree bend…

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